523 Zachmeheath.--A small shrub, growing close on the ground, covering
it with its foliage; it is found by the side of fields of water; it
is of two kinds, the leaf of one small and thin, those of the other
broad and thick. The first kind is excellent in the cure of piles:
thus, dried in the shade, pounded, sifted, and taken every morning in
the quantity of a palmful with water, for fourteen days; and every
night at bed-time, taking 12 mashas of K˙nd Sia, and during its use
abstaining from all acids, or other things, which may produce wind.